Originally posted on Tea & Paper:
pixabay image wheel laughing dripping tears pillar of life where is the balance? it’s the rhyme and sonnet it’s lost in the encounters always revolving around time the obscurity of the limit the plain interpretation of being the words for tanka tuesday this week are circled and squared, synonyms…
Stripes or Bars? #tanka
Originally posted on Trent's World (the Blog):
The lines always curve Rounded made straight and angled Paths always loop back We might think our debts are cleared But we are always ensnared *** This was written for Colleen’s Weekly Poetry challenge. This week we were given two key words, only we had to use…
Circled and Squared
Originally posted on kimbladeswriting:
Words chosen by Jules Pens Some Gems ………………………… Squares are man-made shapes only math has perfect squares circles abound in Nature the sun and full moon are two the spider web another …………………………. Both eyes circled with black kohl and grey tiredness brain struggling to find true squared-off shapes in Nature…
“Circled and Squared”
Originally posted on Padre's Ramblings:
Dylan Gillis at Unsplash Colleen’s syllabic challenge this week is to write a poem which uses synonyms for circled and squared. I went with the cinquain form and the idea of circling around an issue (circled) when what is needed is coming to see things eye-to-eye (squared). ? Beating…
Round
Originally posted on Kitty's Verses:
Round and round in doubt, Harmonise inhibitions, For accomplished feel. Poetry Form :- Senryu(5/7/5 syllables). Thoughts behind the piece :- Beating around the bush or going round and round in doubt, one hardly accomplishes anything. If we harmonise our inhibitions and march ahead, things may work out. Acknowledgements :-…
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How I spent my day
Originally posted on Entertaining Stories:
I started off setting up the old Mac, now that my work PC has been replaced by a laptop. The laptop gives me more versatility, and I have my desk back. After the inevitable upgrades, I spent some time letting my email program catch up. All of that took a…
Book Talk 8/7/2020: Brigid Kemmerer’s A Heart So Fierce and Broken Traci Kenworth
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